Honored to be invited as the keynote/guest speaker at the Spine Summit 2020, The 36th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) on March 6, 2020, at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Here is the full program of the conference. […]
Paper Abstract Purpose: Basic surgical skills of suturing and knot tying are an essential part of medical training. Having an automated system for surgical skills assessment could help save experts time and improve training efficiency. There have been some recent attempts at automated surgical skills assessment using either video analysis or acceleration data. In this […]
Paper A. Zia, D. Castro, and I. Essa (2016), “Fine-tuning Deep Architectures for Surgical Tool Detection,” in Workshop and Challenges on Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions (M2CAI), Held in Conjunction with International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Athens, Greece, 2016. [PDF] [WEBSITE] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2016-Zia-FDASTD, address = {Athens, […]
Routine evaluation of basic surgical skills in medical schools requires considerable time and effort from supervising faculty. For each surgical trainee, a supervisor has to observe the trainees in-person. Alternatively, supervisors may use training videos, which reduces some of the logistical overhead. All these approaches, however, are still incredibly time-consuming and involve human bias. In this paper, we present an automated system for surgical skills assessment by analyzing video data of surgical activities.
Paper Abstract We present an automated framework for a visual assessment of the expertise level of surgeons using the OSATS (Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills) criteria. Video analysis technique for extracting motion quality via frequency coefficients is introduced. The framework is tested in a case study that involved analysis of videos of medical students with different expertise levels performing basic […]
Paper Abstract A fully automated framework for video-based surgical skill assessment is presented that incorporates the sequential and qualitative aspects of surgical motion in a data-driven manner. The Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) assessments is replicated, which provides both an overall and in-detail evaluation of basic suturing skills required for surgeons. Video analysis […]
Thesis title: Surgical Skill Assessment Using Motion Texture analysisYachna Sharma, Ph. D. Candidate, ECEhttp://users.ece.gatech.edu/~ysharma3/ Committee: Prof. Irfan Essa (advisor), College of ComputingProf. Mark A. Clements (co-advisor), School of Electrical and Computer EngineeringProf. David Anderson, School of Electrical and Computer EngineeringProf. Anthony Yezzi, School of Electrical and Computer EngineeringProf. Christopher F. Barnes, School of Electrical and […]
Abstract The assessment of surgical skills is an essential part of medical training. The prevalent manual evaluations by expert surgeons are time-consuming and often their outcomes vary substantially from one observer to another. We present a video-based framework for automated evaluation of surgical skills based on the Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) criteria. […]
Citation E. L. Sarin, K. Kim, I. Essa, and W. A. Cooper (2011), “3-Dimensional Visualization of the Operating Room Using Advanced Motion Capture: A Novel Paradigm to Expand Simulation-Based Surgical Education,” in Proceedings of Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 2011. [BIBTEX] @InCollection{ 2011-Sarin-3VORUAMCNPESSE, author = {E. L. Sarin and K. […]
Abstract As demands on hospital efficiency increase, there is a stronger need for automatic analysis, recovery, and modification of surgical workflows. Even though most of the previous work has dealt with higher level and hospital-wide workflow including issues like document management, the workflow is also an important issue within the surgery room. Its study has […]